Desiccated-fruit product.



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CHARLES N. TINKLEPAUG-H, OF BURTON, OHIO.

DESICCATED-FRUIT PRODUGT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 23, 1911. Serial No. 628,967.

Patented July 23, 1912.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES N. TINKLE- PAUGH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Burton, in the county of Geauga and State of Ohio, have invented new and useful Improvements in D'esiccated-Fruit Products, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a novel desiccated fruit product, and particularly to 'a novel mode of preparing lemons for preservation, whereby the fruit may be indefinitely kept, while retaining all the original properties of thefresh fruit.

In carrying my invention into practice, the fresh ripe or nearly ripe fruit to be preserved is first sliced or out into small pieces with the skin and pulp intact, then sprinkled or coated with dry sugar, and then immediately drled in the sun or dried or evaporated in any iof the well known ways. As a result of this rocess of treatment, the greater part c the water is evaporated from the fruit, while ranulated the essences or volatile constituents are partly taken up or absorbed by the saccharine coating and partly confined in the pulp and skin bysuch coating. ['he fruit I thus prepared has the general appearance of ordinary conserved fruit and may be employed for flavoring andany of the ordinary purposes for-which the fresh fruit is used. n

Having. thus described my invention, what I claim as new is:

As a new article of manufacture, the herein described desiccated fruit product, comprising divided uncooked portions of lemons with pulp and skin intact, and having a saccharine coating confining and holding against evaporation the volatile constituents of the fruit.- l i In testimony whereof I aiiix my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES N. TINKLEPAUGH. Witnesses:

C. E. WILLIAMS, J. E. WALES. 

